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By Geoff Johns<\/strong>, Don Kramer<\/strong> & Keith Champagne<\/strong> (DC Comics) The super-hero soap opera (originally published as issues #66-75 of the monthly magazine) steps into high gear as the younger stalwarts have to travel back in time to thwart a plot to prevent the Justice Society from ever coming out of retirement, after the House un-American Activities Commission and Senator Joe McCarthy forced them to disappear in the early 1950s.<\/p>\n This unassuming time-paradox romp serves to clear up a few long running plot-lines, as does the eponymous Black Vengeance<\/em> sequence that follows when Atom Smasher and Black Adam debate the kind of heroics necessary in the modern world whilst the nigh-omnipotent Spectre attempts to destroy all magic (as seen in such Infinite Crisis<\/strong> series as Day of Vengeance<\/strong>) whilst asking a few questions about US imperialism as seen from the perspective of the citizens of fictional middle-Eastern nation Kahndaq, who are mere collateral damage statistics whenever super-powers come into play.<\/p>\n Despite the seemingly political overtones, this is still primarily a simple hero-fest for fans of that genre, and will deliver high quality escapism for the faithful, although the uninitiated might find the implied back-story a little hard to grasp.<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a9 2006 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00c2\u00a0 By Geoff Johns, Don Kramer & Keith Champagne (DC Comics) ISBN 1-84576-256-8 The super-hero soap opera (originally published as issues #66-75 of the monthly magazine) steps into high gear as the younger stalwarts have to travel back in time to thwart a plot to prevent the Justice Society from ever coming out of retirement, … <\/p>\n
\nISBN 1-84576-256-8<\/p>\n